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RTX 4090s continue to melt — GPU repair facility claims it works on 200 flagship Nvidia cards per month
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I get the appeal of the "best of the best" but a few years ago I decided to only buy components and tech in general with efficiency in mind, and I'm so happy.
My RTX 4060 Ti runs everything but stays surprisingly cool for a GPU, gets by with my 500W PSU with power to spare, is stone silent, and everything fits in a nice small form factor case. My computer is silent, cool and wastes very little power. This is also how I'm choosing phones and many other tech gadgets nowadays.
Having your product be so demanding you need to create a new connector to retrofit into old style power supplies, and then having it melt because even your own adaptor can't handle the power, is not a good idea at all.
Not only am I with you 100% but I also by all of my hardware used.
There just aren’t very many games I want to play these days that require a graphics card that weighs more than a house cat.
Most of the games I want to play lately are indies that would run on an AMD APU…
AFAIK it can handle all the power totally fine - it's just very easy to partially connect instead of fully.
I guess one could make the argument that if it's so tightly within spec that minor errors can cause catastrophic failure, it can't really handle it.
But it can also be said that this is just user error being reported as "Nvidia bad" because this farms clicks and up votes.
It's not about how tight the spec is - it's about how poorly designed the connector is if it is easy to partially connect.
You can have very tight specs and not be failure prone.
If a partial connection, a very common event, is not problematic with other GPUs but very problematic with this one - yes, it's correct to affirm being so tightly within spec is a problem, as deviations in real world usage are more than expected.
It's not that common with previous connectors though. They snapped in and without a full connection did not work.